The "wedding industrial complex" is a $70-billion-a-year business in the U.S. that includes dresses, venues, planners, photographers, videographers, caterers, bands, jewelry designers, florists and more. It's an industry Kellee Khalil was first expos...

Michelle Peluso, global consumer chief marketing and Internet officer at Citigroup and Gilt board member, is taking on the role of CEO at Gilt Groupe, the company announced Thursday. Word that the online retailer was looking for a replacement for co-...

If you thought Starbucks' new $7 cup of coffee was pricey, just wait until you see the company's new limited-edition payment card. Starbucks and Gilt, a site that offers limited-time sales on designer apparel and other goods, are partnering to offer ...

It appears that Gilt Groupe is look to sell Jetsetter, a flash sales site for high-end vacation packages. A source close to the situation tells Mashable that Gilt is seeking between $30 million to $50 million for the site -- a hefty asking price, p...

Mobile is becoming an increasingly significant sales channel for many online retailers, particularly for those who sell merchandise through flash sales. Mobile sales recently accounted for more than 50% of a day's sales on Rue La La, a 6 million-memb...

In the early days of daily deals, shoppers often had to band together in groups to "unlock" a deal. It was a strategy that proved effective in spreading awareness of those deals and the companies that offered them. But can the same idea work for Pint...

Niche Media founder Jason Binn is rentering the publishing market by launching yet another luxury lifestyle title, this time in partnership with Gilt Groupe and Hudson News. Du Jour, scheduled to launch this fall, promises to be multi-platform from t...

You've placed dozens of book orders on Amazon by now. You've typed in a credit card number and address for at least a decade's worth of bagels to your New York City-deprived relatives in Seattle. But when was the last time you stopped to wonder where...

Vente-Privee, the 10-year-old French company credited with developing the luxury flash sales model adapted by Gilt Groupe and others in the U.S., arrived stateside Wednesday. The launch comes less than 24 hours after Gilt.com announced that it would ...

According to Forrester research, Americans will spend nearly $200 billion online in 2011, which accounts for about one-tenth of what U.S. consumers will spend on products and services all together this year. That figure is expected to grow by nearly ...

Gilt.com, Gilt Groupe's flash sales site for apparel and home decor, announced Tuesday that it would begin shipping to more than 90 additional countries. The site, which launches sales on a range of deeply discounted designer merchandise in the women...

Gilt Home unveiled a redesigned site Tuesday, adding an expanded range of merchandise and editorial integration to its staple of flash sales offerings on home goods. The three-year-old site now offers four ways to shop: daily flash sales, which begin...

Gilt has added ecommerce functionality to its Facebook Pages, giving fans early -- and in some cases, exclusive -- access to a range of merchandise across Gilt's categories for women, men, children and home. Each category will have its own sale begin...

Gilt Groupe took the wraps off its latest ecommerce venture, a full-price fashion retail site for men. Park & Bond is Gilt's second departure from the business model it was built on, that of online flash sales. Until this year, the New York-based sta...

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Jetsetter, Gilt's flash sales site for travel, has launched a service that provides personal consultations with its network of more than 200 travel writers. Like traditional travel agents, Jetsetter's correspondents -- who are paired with members bas...

Gilt Groupe launched an online culinary magazine to public beta Wednesday -- a brand new venture for the invite-only sales company. Gilt has recently added new sales categories, including travel and home decor, but online content represents a radical...

The less than four-year-old flash sales startup Gilt Groupe has raised $138 million in a round of funding announced Monday. Softbank Group invested $62.5 million and also took a 50% stake in Gilt Groupe Japan, the leading flash sales site in the coun...

In the same way you can get daily deals on wine tastings and whatnot in your inbox, you can now receive notifications about discounts on indie music from GroopEase. GroopEase is a newly launched group-buying, members-only site that deals in digital m...

High-end flash sales platform Gilt Groupe announced Wednesday that it has acquired home decor site Decorati for an undisclosed amount. Decorati is an online resource for interior designers, replete with searchable catalog, matchmaking services for in...

Gilt Groupe has expanded its local deals program Gilt City to Tokyo, bringing discounts on restaurants, salons and other high-end service providers to members several times per week. New York-based startup Gilt, which has been offering flash sales on...

Beginning Wednesday, December 15, flash sales site Gilt Groupe will sell one new 2011 Jetta for $5,995 -- a 63% discount off the regular price of $15,995 -- for three consecutive days beginning at noon ET. In an apparent effort to promote Gilt's mobi...

Invitation-only flash sales site Gilt Groupe plans to launch a full-price men's retail site in summer 2011, the company announced Tuesday. The forthcoming website will offer a "tightly edited" range of men's apparel, gadgets and other accessories alo...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. While the online retail concept has been around for almost two decades, th...

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BuyVIP, a members-only retail club, has just been acquired by Amazon. The Wall Street Journal reports the sale price was a healthy $96.5 million. BuyVIP, like Gilt Groupe and a few others, promises high-end goods at rock-bottom discounts for its memb...

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Target is partnering with the members-only Gilt Groupe flash-sale service to create an exclusive experience around its upcoming fall capsule collections. For years, Target has worked with big name designers -- think Jean-Paul Gaultier and Proenza Sch...

Starbucks is working with the members-only flash sale service Gilt Groupe to offer Gold level My Starbucks Rewards customers an opportunity to purchase Galápagos San Cristóbal coffee, a rare blend from the Galápagos Islands. The Starbucks private sal...

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